IP Address IP (Internet Protocol) Address is an address of your network hardware. It helps in connecting your computer to other devices on your network and all over the world. An IP Address is made up of numbers or characters. An example of an IP address would be: 506.457.14.512 All devices that are connected to …
IP Address Vs Domain Name A domain name is essentially a name for an IP address of a website. Since IP addresses consist of a combination of numbers, domain names are a way for people to remember where a website can be found without having to memorize combinations of numbers and periods. IP addresses look like this:173.194.70.113 If …
Types of Hosting Shared Hosting Shared hosting means just that. Your website is hosted on a server shared by other websites. The advantage of this setup is the shared cost. You can pay as little as $5 to $10 per month for sharing a super server with (probably) hundreds (or thousands) of other websites. Virtual Private Server (VPS) …
World Wide Web In 1989 the world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments. Hypertext and the internet already existed at this point but no one had thought of a way to use the internet to link one document …
Uniform Resource Identifier (uri) The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is intended to identify abstract or physical resources on the Internet. What these resources are supposed to be can change depending on the situation. It can thus be, a website, for example. However, email senders and recipients can also be identified via URI. Applications use the unambiguous designation …
Internet The Internet is a global wide area network that connects computer systems across the world. It includes several high-bandwidth data lines that comprise the Internet “backbone.” These lines are connected to major Internet hubs that distribute data to other locations, such as web servers and ISPs. Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative and self-sustaining …
Transfer Protocols Transfer Control Protocol or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol suite, TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol (IP), and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP. TCP provides reliable, ordered delivery of a …
Website A website is a collection of publicly accessible, interlinked Web pages that share a single domain name. Websites can be created and maintained by an individual, group, business or organization to serve a variety of purposes. Together, all publicly accessible websites constitute the World Wide Web. For example, the Starlink website address URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is https://www.starlink.mu.
Server A server is a software or hardware device that accepts and responds to requests made over a network. The device that makes the request, and receives a response from the server, is called a client. On the Internet, the term “server” commonly refers to the computer system which receives a request for a web document, …
Payment Method The payment method is the method a buyer chooses to compensate the seller of a good or service that is also acceptable to the seller. In a typical business context, traditional payment forms include cash, cheques, credit or debit cards and internet banking. Different Payment Methods Cash Cash is a method of payment …
